The cultural context of Thailand’s fertility decline

Knodel, John; Chamratrithirong, Aphichat; N, Debavalya

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“…During the late 1960s, fertility began to decline, and all sources confirm that Thailand's TFR was about six or less by 1970.9 The 1970s witnessed a dramatic reduction in Thai fertility, with a 40% decline from 1970 to 1980. 10 In the early 1980s, there was uncertainty about the continuation of the Thai fertility decline. Several fertility surveys, conducted in the late 1970s and the early 1980s, seemed to suggest a reduction in the rate of decline.11 Different sampling procedures across surveys may have been responsible for the uncertainty in measuring the trend.…”

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The Path to Below Replacement-Level Fertility in Thailand

Hirschman¹,

Tan²,

Chamratrithirong³

et al. 1994

International Family Planning Perspectives

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The Path to Below Replacement-Level Fertility in Thailand

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Tan²,

Chamratrithirong³

et al. 1994

International Family Planning Perspectives

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“…The practice of infanticide is often related to social constructions of gender worth and sex preference of children in societies (Scott 1999). Compared with other Asian countries including China, India, Nepal, and Taiwan, which have strong son preference, in present-day Thailand there is limited sex preference for children (Knodel et al 1987;W ongboonsin and Ruffolo 1994). An interpretation of infanticide in prehistoric Thailand is not supported by historical and ethnographic sources.…”

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Infant Death in Late Prehistoric Southeast Asia

Halcrow¹,

Tayles²,

Livingstone³

2008

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Important information on demography, epidemiology, inter-population differences in growth, infant burial practices, and social aspects of the community can be gleaned from the study of perinatal bones. The increasing number of perinates unearthed from prehistoric sites in Southeast Asia provides a rare opportunity to investigate these issues. The high number of full-term infants represented at the site of Khok Phanom Di in Central Thailand (4000–3500 b.p. ) remains an enigma. This is an important issue for bioarchaeologists as infant mortality patterns are sensitive barometers of the health and fertility of a population. This study investigated the perinatal age distributions of several chronologically spread sites in prehistoric Southeast Asia with differing subsistence modes and evidence of social complexity. Results show that the age distribution in the collection from Khok Phanom Di is different from the other skeletal samples, with a comparatively higher number of full-term perinates represented. Explanations including infanticide, issues of health and disease, and infant burial practices are considered. It seems likely that the age distribution results from different burial rites of pre-term infants as a consequence of social and cultural differences between Khok Phanom Di and the other sites. This study emphasizes the important contribution bioarchaeological research and the comparative study of infant burial rites can make in understanding aspects of social change in prehistoric communities.

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“…In 1984, these women were in their early teens to early adulthood-ages when they would have fi rst have been exposed to ideas about contraception. In addition, these are the key ages at which women in this context both initiate migration to other areas (Knodel, Chamratrithirong, and Debavalya 1986;Richter et al 1997) and begin the process of family formation through marriage (Jampaklay 2003). By 2000, virtually all of these women were likely to have married and had children, making fertility control an increasingly important issue, particularly with regard to permanent methods.…”

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The legacies of context: Past and present influences on contraceptive choice in Nang Rong, Thailand

Edmeades

2008

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This study explores the ways in which women's contraceptive behavior in a rural area of Thailand is shaped by both past and present context, based on the life course framework. Although the importance of contextual influences for contraceptive behavior is well established in the literature, relatively little research has been conducted that explores how behavior is influenced by historical and contemporaneous contextual factors and by individual life experiences. In addition, much of this research has neglected the role of the normative environment within which contraceptive use takes place. The focus of this paper centers on the effect of contraceptive environment at both early and late stages of the life course and on how this effect is shaped by individual experience with migration to urban areas. This study takes advantage of a unique, prospective longitudinal data set with detailed information on community context at multiple points in time, an important improvement upon prior research. The results show that contraceptive behavior is particularly responsive to current community context, with past context primarily exerting an indirect effect on behavior through shaping current contextual influences.

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The cultural context of Thailand’s fertility decline

Cited by 7 publications

References 10 publications

The Path to Below Replacement-Level Fertility in Thailand

The Path to Below Replacement-Level Fertility in Thailand

Infant Death in Late Prehistoric Southeast Asia

The legacies of context: Past and present influences on contraceptive choice in Nang Rong, Thailand

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